Neuropathic pain is often chronic, and can be severe and difficult to treat.(NICE 2010) Neuropathic pain is commonly described as burning, stabbing, stinging, shooting, aching or electric shock-like in quality.(Sykes 1997; Galer 1995) The pain may superficial or deep, intermittent or constant, and can be spontaneous or be triggered by various stimuli.

Conventional management often involves the combined use of a range of pharmacological (e.g. amitriptyline, gabapentin, opioids, NSAIDs, topical treatments such as capsaicin and lidocaine) and non-drug approaches, (e.g. transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, psychological treatments, and specialist procedures to stimulate, block or destroy discrete areas of the nervous system.(Sykes 1997)

One systematic review of randomised controlled trials comparing acupuncture with carbamazepine for trigeminal neuralgia found acupuncture to be as effective as drug treatment, but to cause fewer unwanted effects.(Liu 2010)

Acupuncture was found to be more effective than cobamamide for peripheral neuropathy due to chemotherapy (Xu 2010).

I’ve had a great deal of success treating neuropathic pain. If you’d like to book you can do so online. Alternatively, you can email or contact me via our contact form.